Cohere in .NET in 10 Minutes: Microsoft.Extensions.AI + the Cohere.Extensions.AI NuGet Package
TL;DR: connect Cohere to .NET in 10 minutes. I’ll show two approaches:
direct call to the Chat API V1/V2
using the unified Microsoft.Extensions.AI interface (IChatClient) - provider-agnostic code.
I’m experimenting with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and want to share the results: I wrote a small Cohere adapter and published it to NuGet. Maybe someone will find it useful, and I’d love to get feedback.
With Microsoft.Extensions.AI it became easier to plug LLMs into .NET projects: we now have unified abstractions (IChatClient), DI and minimal vendor lock-in. Cohere is not supported out of the box, so I made a lightweight adapter and published it to NuGet. This article shows how to run a Cohere chat in .NET in ten minutes.
Cohere is an LLM provider focused on enterprise needs: data privacy, turnkey …
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